Daily Archives: April 10, 2016

The Art of Interview- wk 5 Lectorial

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Louise Turley’s presentation got me thinking about a range of different interview styles after seeing her some of her work. Turley’s said that she stuck with interview’s because she loves capturing real stories about real people. I think now I should focus on establishing an interesting and professional relationship with my interviewee then deciding how to shoot and portray them. Too often I get caught up about thing like what questions I should ask and where I should film when really these decisions should come after I know what the person’s message is.

In Turley’s first TV show about Patrick White. Using 2 different styles informal and formal interviewing she quickly establishes the main point of whether or not people will “read [him] when [he’s] dead” The public perspective is relatable and humorous filming the subjects with a hand held camera in the daily environments  eg butcher/ cafe

Cutaways of people guessing his occupation emphasises the lack of knowledge in regards to White which builds to the professional opinion of him when the tone moves to a more professional from experts. The set up of the interviewees indicates the we are receiving an expert opinion with conventions like bookshelves, key lighting placing the subjects under a subtle spotlight which add credibility and a serious tone. This contrasts the the conversational style and background noise when filming in the general public. I’d like the play with the idea of using multiple styles in one film.

Circus Oz had an energetic inclusive feel to it- like a circus. This was created with rapid zooms and upbeat quirky music. The interview felt like a welcoming peak into the behind the scenes of the circus as we followed the guide through the building. There were no questions being asked or conversation which contributed to the fast paced snapshot of circus life.

 

Week 5 Media One workshop

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Working in my group of three with Isabelle and Nicole was a good taste of being in a mini film crew. Although we had no assigned jobs at the beginning, soon we fell into the roles we preferred while passing around the handy cam. We felt like we were on the Amazing Race on the hunt for good locations with only 40 minutes left. After a quick chat we all agreed that the best place to capture the “uni life” would be around RMIT connect where hoards of students huddle around powerpoints and feed off the wifi. On the way we were suprised unexpected filming opportunities such as a herd of students all heading for one building with almost identical backpacks.

The RMIT  connect team we nice enough to let us use a spare room to avoid excess white noise for the interviews. But we later discovered that a rogue lecture mic had been left on and was ringing in the background, this became a real problem since the room was very large and echoed every sound. By the time we realised this it was too late to start over. I will have to figure out how to “fix it in post.” Next time I will be sure to do a sound test in the room before we shoot.

Being interviewed was a interesting since we were all thinking of questions for ourselves and we soon found a good pattern in staging questions for the best answers.

Sharing the files among the group has been difficult as I have a mac Air that basically holds one floppy disk worth of data. For some reason we had shot in a strange format so uploading to the computer was a challenge but we eventually got it.

Things I would do differently next time:

  1. Have more coverage: I’d like to get more shots of the interviewer’s reactions and some hand gestures.
  2. Have a proper discussion about the the main point of the interview so that we already know what we want to say.